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Riot Cofounder Defends Netflix League Of Legends Spinoff Arcane Being A $250 Million 'Financial Miss'
26.12.2024
Anime steampunk spin-off Arcane just wrapped up its second and final season on Netflix. While the League of Legends show cost $250 million to produce and didn’t make that money back, Riot Games cofounder Marc Merrill now says the company still considers the show a success because of how much fans...
Marvel Rivals Doesn’t Explain What 'Season Bonus' Is, So We Looked Into It For You
19.12.2024
Fans of the hero shooter genre are sure to notice some familiar ideas in Marvel Rivals, whether it’s the game modes or certain character abilities. That said, the new superhero title does attempt to spice things up with fun concepts like destructible environments and Team-Up abilities. One of...
NFL Team Owner Reportedly Used Madden To Make Decisions
19.12.2024
A new report claims that Woody Johnson, who owns the NFL team the New York Jets, has used EA’s popular Madden video game series to help him make decisions involving real players. It’s even reported that a trade deal was killed due to stats found in the game. Read more
EA College Football 25 Is Now The Best-Selling Sports Game In US History
18.12.2024
EA College Football 25 is a massive hit. EA’s first college football game in over a decade is the top-selling game of the year, and has now become the best-selling sports game ever in the United States. Making its achievement even more impressive, it reached that milestone in less than five months....
Helldivers 2 Fans Are In Full Revolt Over Expensive Killzone Crossover Skins
18.12.2024
Helldivers 2's first crossover collaboration is officially here and it’s already causing some wallet agita. The good news is the multiplayer game is getting Killzone Helghast skins as it approaches its one-year anniversary. The bad news is the entire bundle of virtual cosmetics costs $20, half...
Marvel Rivals Streamer Finds The Most Hilarious Use For Doctor Strange’s Portal Yet
18.12.2024
Doctor Strange’s portal—a skill that lets the sorcerer create a pathway between any two points on the map—is one of the most useful abilities in Marvel Rivals. Players have used it to set up game-changing plays like giving teammates a shortcut into the enemy backline, or sending foes falling...
Here's How To Enjoy Pokemon TCG Pocket Without Spending A Dime
18.12.2024
Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket is the hottest Pokemon-related thing to come out this year. That said, it is also very much a gacha game, which means that it is built to compel you to drop potentially hundreds, or even thousands of dollars into the game to complete your digital collection. How...
Delta Force, As Told By Steam Reviews
18.12.2024
It seems like every year or two, we have a new “Battlefield-killer” storming the market in the hopes of gaining a following within the large-scale first-person shooter market. Following the absolute disaster of Battlefield 2042, there’s a pretty large hole to fill. But is Delta Force—the...
Here's One Thing Marvel Rivals Won't Copy From Overwatch 2
17.12.2024
Guangyun “Guangguang” Chen, creative director behind Marvel Rivals, says that while many players have requested a role queue system, a matchmaking option to help create balanced teams, there are currently no plans to implement one in the free-to-play character shooter.Read more
Marvel Rivals Players Are Terrified Of Iron Fist
17.12.2024
Every hero shooter has characters players loathe to fight against. Marvel Rivals is no exception. Jeff the Land Shark has become an early love-to-hate hero because he literally eats his opponents (and allies) and then spits them off the map. I personally hate to see Hawkeye coming because I know...
Here Are The Games Kids Are Actually Playing In 2024
17.12.2024
Apple has released lists revealing the most downloaded and popular free and paid games on iPhone and iPad. The company also shared data on the most popular Apple Arcade games. Balatro sickos might be surprised! Read more
Marvel Rivals' Confusing Use Of The Term 'Ace,' Explained
17.12.2024
Marvel Rivals is the latest game to make a splash in the hero shooter scene, and it’s easy to see where it takes its inspiration from. That’s not to say the developers didn’t put enough of a unique spin on things. Team-up abilities, for example, are a special mechanic and there are quite a...
Earning 'SVP' In Marvel Rivals Is A Pretty Sweet Way To Lose
17.12.2024
Marvel Rivals might not feature a post-match ”Play of the Game” like Overwatch, but every match highlights the most valuable player, or MVP at the end. You can also see the MVP highlighted on the match summary screen if you were on their team. If you weren’t, you would instead see another player...
Everyone's Having A Totally Normal One About Black Myth: Wukong Not Winning GOTY
16.12.2024
Award ceremonies are very silly. One film, or book, or game, isn’t objectively better than all the others, because that’s not a thing. But the notion that it is nonetheless serves as the bizarre basis for such events, and it’s one that it seems the developers and players of Black Myth: Wukong...
Netflix Will Make Squid Game: Unleashed Free For All To Play
13.12.2024
In an act of holiday magnanimity (and crafty marketing), Netflix is giving everyone a new way to compete with your friends. On December 17, the streamer will release its mobile game Squid Game: Unleashed for everyone to play for free, regardless of whether they have a Netflix subscription...
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Fans Are In Love Again After A Surprise Update Addresses A Ton Of Complaints
12.12.2024
The vibes in the Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero community have been absolutely rancid lately, but a huge free update has just changed that. The 3D arena fighter’s latest patch fixes a ton of broken mechanics and OP abilities that were ruining the game’s ranked mode. Even more importantly, local...
Assassin's Creed Shadows Will Have A 'Canon Mode' For Animus Purists
12.12.2024
Ubisoft is an strange ol’ publisher, closing down teams and killing off so many projects—but the games that do reach us tend to be the most extraordinarily accessible, replete with groundbreaking options to make the games playable for the widest numbers of people, in the most specific ways...
Every Team-Up Attack In Marvel Rivals, Explained
11.12.2024
It certainly feels appropriate that a cooperative game based on superheroes and villains would let them work together to take out the opposition. Marvel Rivals takes that to heart with its Team-Ups mechanic, which allows certain character combinations to unlock stat boosts or even special...
Marvel Rivals: The Kotaku Review
10.12.2024
Marvel Rivals, NetEase’s shameless Overwatch-like featuring the heroes and villains that have captivated comic book readers and moviegoers for decades, is already at a crossroads. It’s less than a week old, but it’s clear even now that the decisions NetEase makes in the coming months will determine...
Pokémon TCG Pocket's Latest Event Might Be Its Best So Far
9.12.2024
Pokémon TCG Pocket has a very odd pattern to its “events”—there appear to be weeks when the game falls fallow with nothing extra to do, then three special challenges will happen at the same time. That’s happening again today, as the Genetic Apex SP Emblem Event 1 launches, joining the ongoing...